For me many of the lyrics of Ian Dury - who sadly died last week - are brilliantly memorable. Very English (You have to be familiar with the wilds of Essex and the wilder behaviour of Essex folk), and very funny - a modern-day W.S.Gilbert - Dury's stuff was wonderfully observed. Not exactly folk, not exactly blues, but bloody brilliant. It's a measure of how goof he was that the leading lights of the poetry, pop and literary worlds will pay tribute to the late Ian Dury tomorrow night (tue) at the Poetry Olympics in London. Dury was due to appear, but now the other performers have decided to dedicate the event to his memory, with a tribute to him being planned by organiser Michael Horovitz. Other performers are due to include former punk rocker Joe Strummer of The Clash, punk poet John Cooper Clarke, Sixties singer-songwriter Julie Felix, author and playwright Hanif Kureishi, dub poets Linton Kwesi Johnson and Jean Binta Breeze, writer Beryl Bainbridge and jazz pianist Stan Tracey. Remember a great lyricist.